April 2009
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Apple will save the world
I promised myself that there’d be no more eye-rolling posts about irritating Apple-stroking, but then I saw this:
“Apple has confronted first the music labels and then the mobile phone carriers, forcing change on two of the world’s most monopolistic and hidebound industries. Apple papers our cities with dancing silhouettes and exhorts us in banners to “think different.” Apple is not just a source...
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GeoCities is closing
Thank. Christ.
http://mashable.com/2009/04/23/geocities-shutdown/
I always wondered how the site had survived all these years. When I found it in ‘96, it was a pretty interesting idea, but for almost this entire millennium it has seemed like an astoundingly irrelevant place.
Back then, the internet was all optimism and animated GIFs. News portals and RSS feeds weren’t leaking from every server,...